Grand Theft Auto 4 Walkthrough and Strategy Wiki SuperGuide

11. Francis McReary Missions

After the short cut-scene, drive to the viewpoint at Union Drive East marked on the GPS, where Francis will call your cell phone and give you the blackmailer's cell phone number.

Call the phone number and look towards the park benches. He'll be on the leftmost park bench. You'll spot him easily by calling the phone number and watching him answer it. With the target in sight, kill him, and pick up the memory stick from his corpse. Take the memory stick back to Francis to complete the mission.

Final InterviewReward: $1,000

Time to dress nice.

After speaking to Francis, you must go to an interview at a law firm. Purchase a nice suit and shoes from Peruses Clothing in south Algonquin. After that, go to an internet café, log onto the internet, and click on the Goldberg, Ligner & Shyster ad.

Submit your resume using the internet.

Now that you're at their webpage, click on submit resume, and leave the internet café. You'll automatically call Francis and tell him about your progress. Now you have to wait until the law firm contacts you for an interview, which may take up to three in-game days to happen. This gives you a chance to prepare for the interview, so purchase armor and shotgun ammo.

To aid your escape, park the car by the building's exit.

After the office calls you to set up an interview, find an armored car, and park it by the exit to the building (pictured). Walk over to the entrance of the building, use the intercom to be let into the building, and walk over to the receptionist who will show you into Goldberg's office.

Eliminate Goldberg after picking up the files on the desk.

Sit down into the chair in front of his desk. After a few seconds, stand up, and point your gun at him. Pick up the files from the desk and shoot Goldberg. Equip your shotgun and walk out the door you came in.

Kill the guards on your way out of the building.

A few security guards will run towards you. With your shotgun drawn, shoot them, and continue towards the exit of the building. The front doors will be locked, so your exit will be on the lower level. You can get there by walking down the stairs, towards the exit, where your getaway car is still parked.

Walk down these stairs to get to the exit.

Enter the car and drive away from the building. Lose any wanted level you may have incurred, then take the files to Francis' location on your GPS to complete this mission.

Alternately, if you kill Goldberg quietly (such as with a knife) you can exit the building unmolested.

Holland NightsReward: $5,000

Francis keeps dragging you deeper, and deeper into the abyss of crime.

There are two ways to do this mission. Scroll to the bottom of this mission for the easier walkthrough. Keep in mind, the alternative way will not get you any ammo from dead goons, nor will you have to kill them.

Load up on ammo and armor, and park your car outside of the entrance after the cut-scene that plays when you arrive at the GPS location. If you park your car beforehand, it will spawn across the street.

If you see anyone poke their head out when you're walking down the hallway, shoot them.

Walk up the staircase slowly. When you arrive on the second floor, take out your shotgun, shoot the first thug, crouch, and keep your gun drawn. Various thugs will run towards your location. A few of them will take cover behind the pillars on the left, and right side of the hallway. As soon as you see their heads pop out, shoot them. Continue towards the area marked on your GPS.

A first aid kit will be by the emergency exit.

Continue up the next flight of stairs and kill the two thugs inside the stairwell. You'll see a first aid kit next to the emergency exit door. Pick it up if you need it.

If you walk up slowly up the stairs, you'll be able to kill your target before he gets outside.

Continue up the stairwell, slowly. If you walk slowly up the stairs, you can spot your target standing in the stairwell, and shoot him through the railing. If he gets away from you, follow him to the rooftop. When you get to the roof you will be given the option to spare the target's life. Once you make your choice the police will arrive and you will have a two star wanted level. Now you have to escape.

Run down the stairs towards your parked car; don't spend any time exchanging fire with the police. Get into your car as fast as you can, drive away from this area, and lose your wanted level to complete this mission.

Alternate strategy: Once you have arrived at the apartment block and activated the mission, walk backwards to the intersection. Look towards the red mark on your compass. Pull out your sniper, and if you are far enough away, you should be able to see your target. Shoot him once in the head, and he will drop on the ground dead. You will get no wanted level, and complete the mission in full.

LureReward: $5,000

Francis is starting to lose touch with reality.

After the cut-scene, go to the waypoint, enter the marked car to pick up the sniper rifle, and drive to new location on your GPS. Enter the building's stairwell across the street, walk up to the rooftop, and stand on the marked area on your GPS.

Get to the designated waypoint...

...and shoot the television to lure your target to the window.

After the short cut-scene that shows your target, shoot the target's bedroom television, luring the target to the window. If you prefer, you can save costly sniper rifle ammo by calling the number on the phone. Shoot the target in the head. Run down the building's stairwell to street level to complete the mission.

Francis will send you a text message in a few in-games days after the Lure mission. If you haven't completed all the Derrick missions yet, now would be a good time to do that. Meet up with Francis at the designated point on your GPS, who wants you to kill his brother Derrick.

Use the window cleaning platform to get to the rooftop.

When you get to the building's rooftop, you have a choice between killing Derrick or Francis. If you kill Derrick, and keep Francis alive, you'll gain his special ability that reduces your wanted level during any mission.

Poor Derrick...

Drive to the waypoint on your GPS, get out of the car, climb the scaffolding, and use the window cleaning platform to ascend towards the rooftop. Walk over to the waypoint on the rooftop, peer down the scope of your rifle, and shoot Derrick in the head. Descend the rooftop via the window cleaning platform, and leave the area. Mission complete.

Undertaker

A funeral for a friend.

We're assuming that you took our advice and have killed Derrick. You attend Derek's funeral after you've completed the Blood Brothers mission. Put on your best suit and shoes (the same clothes you wore in The Final Interview mission are fine), load up on rocket ammo and armor, and proceed to the church by following your GPS. Watch the cut-scene.

Destroy the car before the thugs get out of it.

After that, you'll be behind the cover of Derrick's hearse. Albanian thugs have decided to crash the funeral. Fire your rocket launcher at the approaching cars full of thugs. Two cars will come towards your left, and another car from the right. If any thugs are alive after that attack, take out your assault rifle, and kill the rest.

If there are any thugs left over from the cars, take out your assault rifle, and kill them.

On Packie's cue, get into the driver's seat of the hearse. Drive away from the church by following the directions in the GPS. Thugs will chase you. They must not destroy the hearse, or cause Derrick's coffin to fall out the back, otherwise the mission will fail. If you have to, open fire on the thugs, but this may attract the police, and you'll gain a wanted level (you can't call Francis because he's at the funeral). However, if you can make it to the graveyard, your wanted level will disappear.

Be careful when running away from the thugs and firing at them. You may attract some unwanted attention from the police.

If you can, make it to Leaper's bridge, where the thugs will stop their pursuit. Make it to the graveyard to complete the mission.